...promote or diminish the general happiness." Chapter VI: Utility So then actions are to be estimated by their tendency.* Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. But to all this there seems a plain objection, viz. that many actions...

...Principles, j, 2; i, p. 44. * Ibid., p. 45. * Principles, ^, 3; I, p. 46. 4 Ibid., p. 47. • Ibid., p. 46. is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it.'1 And in estimating the consequences of actions we should ask what...

...pleasure, but without hankering after anything better (39) What, then, does morality demand of us? "Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it" (72). For Paley, expediency and utility are synonymous with "productive...

...the general happiness. CHAPTER VI. UTILITY. So then actions are to be estimated by their tendency. 5 Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. But to all this there seems a plain objection, viz. that many actions...

...gave a sort of religious sanction to the utilitarian philosophy. "So then actions are to be estimated by their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it." When Paley speaks of "our principle that the criterion of right...

...according, in other words, as they tend to promote or diminish happiness. 'Actions are to be estimated by V their tendency. Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it.' What is happiness ? It exists when the amount or aggregate of pleasure...

...apposite exemplification is furnished in the first of the passages quoted by Mr. Dugald Stewart : ' Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it,' * &c. But still it is abundantly evident from the context, and the...

...reference to theological consideration can be shown by the following quotations from Paley : — " Whatever is expedient is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone which constitutes the obligation of it." Bentham never produced anything more distasteful to an intuitionist...